In The Ring

Coffee

Baekhyun wanted to befriend
the boxer, but the boxer was confused on
his intentions.

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As he applied the last part of his skin care, he taps his face, feeling fresh before ruffling his hair, getting his phone, earphones and his wallet and putting on his glasses before going out of his flat.

Another sunny day, and another day of still being unemployed. Baekhyun shrugs, it wasn't a big deal anyway, thanks to Suho who's his sugar daddy, or just his friend who likes to spoil him sometimes, he does get extra money from him and doesn't tell his parents on that.

On his way to the coffee shop to get a nice drink for the morning, with his luck, he quickly spots big ears and big height, which equals to Chanyeol. This time Chanyeol went on a vintage look which Baekhyun wouldn't expect for a boxer to wear, but who was he to judge?

He smiles, almost like you could see sparkles go with them. He just sees the taller casually waiting for his order as he listens to music, he had brown rounded sunglasses which Baekhyun thought complemented with his warm color look.

It was just one of the simplest clothes ever, bur if you were to be Baekhyun, you'd never realize it would look good until you see God wear it.

Baekhyun goes near Chanyeol without second thoughts, maybe saying hi to him. He goes behind Chanyeol, softly punching him on the back as Chanyeol looked down and turned around him.

"Hi Chanyeol! I texted you last night but you never replied to my message. Anyways before your coffee is done, I wanna tell you that not replying to anyone's message is quite rude and it hurted my feelings a bit. So please do reply to my messages, not like my ex who kept seening me, which was undoubtedly because of my embarrassing messages but that's besides the point!"

Chanyeol just blinks at him, not responding for a few seconds as he didn't really hear anything other than him telling him to stop seening him and reply to his messages as he stops the music playing in his earphones.

"I'm sorry what was that again?"

Chanyeol says, removing one ear bud from his ears as he raises an eyebrow ar Baekhyun who opened his mouth, but quickly closed it thinking about his decisions. "Nothing! Anyways what are you planning to do today? Are you going to like, work out again?"

"Do I look like I wanna work out?"

"W-well no."

"Then I'm not. What's my day's plans even have to do with your business anyway?" Chanyeol remarks, turning his head away from Baekhyun and wondering why his god damn coffee was taking too long. Impatiently tapping his fingers on the table not wanting to listen to the pipsqueak's voice once again.

"Nothing! I just wanna know! That's what friends are for anyway!"

*Friends? Is he serious right now—* Chanyeol's thoughts get caught off when he flinches at the sudden interwine of his hands by another a small baby hand, it felt like a woman's before Chanyeol looked down only to realize it was Baekhyun's.

He felr uncomfortable, but also somehow...warm? He couldn't explain it, but it was a mix between of suffering and calmness in the holding of their hands. Baekhyun and Chanyeol made some eye fucking for a split second before Chanyeol forcefully removes his hand off of Baekhyun's.

He didn't know what to say, the guy was absolutely delusional, or weird that Chanyeol couldn't cope up with words to respond with the situation, instead he decides to ignore it and hide his blushing(god why is he blushing!?) face.

He sighs in relief when his coffee finally came, quickly getting it and hoping that whatever the fuck was the pipsqueak's name who he met at a candy shop and saw him with Sehun and later on asked for his number and just now held hands with him would stop acting like a dumbo weirdo.

The dude was definetly hitting on him for sure, and it would be awkward if he was hitting on a straight dude.

Unlucky for Chanyeol, he's bi, but maybe 98% more on men and 2% on women, or depends on the person, he's picky.

As Chanyeol puts some sugar in his coffee, stirring it as he can't help but to set his eyes and think about how innocent and cheerful Baekhyun looks and acts. He was practically singing in a high pithced voice, and the fact that he was moving around like he was dancing and how he looked small compared to the other guys was unbelievable.

Maybe he was around 15 years old or so, and was probably into older guys like Chanyeol or Sehun perhaps.

Chanyeol just hoped Bsekhyun would stop bothering him. If a dude with a more muscular face would do the same kind of thing Baekhyun was doing to him, he'd probably punch them but for Baekhyun, punching innocnet 15 year olds were a limit.

"Chanyeollie!"

Chanyeol's ear pierced, he really didn't know how the pipsqueak knew his name but one thing was that it was annoying to hear him say it. Chanyeol sipped on his coffee, as Baekhyun sat at the same table in front of him.

"You know, I never really got to introduce myself, I'm Byun Baekhyun. I know your Park Chanyeol, your a boxer right? That's cool!"

He sighed, sitting up straight as he crossed his legs, placing his coffee on his table while he looks at Baekhyun with a bored look.

"Okay Byun Baekhyun. Since you know I'm Chanyeol and I'm a boxer right? Your like, 15 years old and I'm 22, so stop hitting on me."

Baekhyun blinks, stopping at the midst of him sipping his drink as he left the liquid still inside his mouth. Confused for a sec on why Chanyeol said he was fifteen years old, he gulped his drink before saying anything.

"I'm not 15! I'm actually 23!"

Chanyeol chokes on his coffee, putting it down again before hitting his chest repeatedly, Baekhyun got worried but Chanyeol stopped choking soon as he removed his glasses and looked af Baekhyun with a mix of a puzzled and shocked expression.

"How the fuck does someone who looks 12 is older than me?"

"T-that's a bit offensive—"

"Show me your ID."

"My what?"

"ID, I don't wanna get fucked with this bullshit."

Baekhyun gulped. Threatening, kinda intimidating but hot. He thought, as he puts out his wallet and pulls out his ID card, giving it to Chanyeol who immediately took it and checked right away for his year.

Jesus, he looks like he's 12 years old in this picture but he was just 18. Chanyeol thought, giving it back to Baekhyun before leaning his back at the chair.

"Anyways. I'm Byun Baekhyun! And I'm 23 years old if your wondering again and clueless. Did you know that there's more trees in Earth than the amount of stars in the whole Milky Way Galaxy?"

Baekhyun starts to blabber random things aboht astrology and more random useless facts that were just clogging Chanyeol's brain. And it gets to the point where the smaller wouldn't shut up that Chanyeol begins to actually like his voice.

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shit chapter but whatever